Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Have Love Will Travel - the Sonics

Have Love Will Travel - the Sonics
2:40
Here Are the Sonics, 1965
Written by Richard Berry, 1959

Brash, American garage rock with stuttering guitar and hoarse screams.  Proto-punk at its loudest and surliest.  Mostly this album is covers of oldies; this particular track was written in 1959.  Raw guitar, a buzzy sax, and spooky surf rhythms bring it into the lo-fi garage era.  The narrator doesn't have a particular baby in mind, he just wants to get one and he'll travel across the country to get one.  "Well, I might take a boat, or I'll take a plane / I might hitchhike or jump a railroad train."  It's like the anti-romantic mirror version of the Box Tops' "The Letter."
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